Local Mechanical Properties of Zinc-Iron Coated Steel Sheets by Depth-Sensing Indentation

Abstract:

Depth-sensing indentation (DSI) is used in this work to determine the change of local mechanical properties by annealing of hot-dip galvanized IF steel sheets. The influence of annealing conditions (temperature and time) on: (i) coating composition; (ii) local mechanical properties and (iii) roughness of the coating surface was quantified. Annealing of steel samples (Ti-IF steel and Ti-Nb-P-IF steel alloyed with phosphorus) was performed with different holding times (10, 60, and 300 s) by both temperatures 450 and 550 °C. The zinc in coating transformed during annealing to the intermetallic phases Zn_xFe_y. Annealed Zn-Fe coatings, wherein the iron concentration falls towards the surface, consist of different intermetallic phases.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 784)
• Pages: 153-158
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.784.153
• Online since: October 2018
• Authors: Ľubomír Ambriško*, Ladislav Pešek
• Keywords: Annealing, Depth Sensing Indentation (DSI), Galvanneal, Zn Coating

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